Sheaves and Applications Reading Group Trinity 2015

We will meet on Wednesday 4-5.30 pm in Week -1 and 0 and on Wednesday 10-11.30 am in Week 1-8.
Details on the topics and place of the meetings can be found in the link below.

Schedule.

For approximately the first half of the term the plan is to introduce sheaves and study some of their applications to persistent homology, network coding and sensor networks. For this the primary reference will be Parts I-III of "Sheaves, cosheaves and applications" by Justin Michael Curry:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3255

For the remainder of the term we could look at selected chapters from Part IV of "Sheaves, cosheaves and applications" and/or read relevant papers from the literature.

List of papers:

Discrete Morse Theory for Computing Cellular Sheaf Cohomology by J. Curry, R. Ghrist, V. Nanda http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6454
Spectral sequences, Exact Couples and Persistent Homology of filtrations by S. Basu, L. Parida http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0801